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There are over a hundred Christmas films, but only eight are worth watching.<\/p>\n
These are the eight\u00a0films that pull something different out of the bag.<\/p>\n
It doesn’t matter from where the ‘different’ is pulled.<\/p>\n
Anything different is good.<\/p>\n
The syrupy gloopyness in White Christmas is good, to begin with, but a binge of pure gloop gets tiresome and induces projectile vomiting after half an hour.<\/p>\n
Besides, a prolonged diet of gloop hardens ones arteries, and is really bad for the soul.<\/p>\n
Or something.<\/p>\n
And yet White Christmas is on the list of many people.<\/p>\n
Thereby proving that many people are fools.<\/p>\n
So I’d like to begin this look at my Top Eight\u00a0Christmas Films with a film that introduced the audience to many ‘different’ things:<\/p>\n
8) Trading Places<\/strong> It’s worth investing the time in this film just to watch Eddie Murphy silently break the fourth wall, when futures\/commodities are being explained to him.<\/p>\n But the film is much better than that one gold moment.<\/p>\n Ackroyd and Murphy play their parts superbly.<\/p>\n There is also an excellent supporting cast tucked away in Trading Places.<\/p>\n The performances by Jamie Lee Curtis (who, ordinarily, leaves me feeling a bit ‘meh’) and Denholm Elliot, are a little short of brilliant.<\/p>\n It almost seems cruel to leave Trading Places out of my Top Five.<\/p>\n But that’s the way this particular Christmas Cookie has crumbled.<\/p>\n
\nThis film has a special place in my heart. It was the first film that showed the level of work that Eddie Murphy was capable of (and consistently missed thereafter).<\/p>\n